Slip-on garment



Patented Apr. '4, 1933 UNITED -s'ravras;

PATENT OFFICE cinema 3. sensor mrmonn, mrmum srn-on ea'am r Application filed September. 8, 1982.. Serial llo, 882,088.

either side to be lapped over the other side,

thus allowing for longer wear or use as to cleanliness of appearance, together with the use of a belt that may be permanently attached to the garment for properly confining the same to the person. These and other advantages are well known as to this type of house dress. 7

Heretofore the dress manufacturers have more or less confined their attention in a manufacturing sense as to this type of dress, to its usefulnessand utility only as to design, in relation to its many advantages to the wearer, and from all-indications, have been greatly influenced thereby. In other words, the structural design of this garment as to and in relationto its'utility, seems to v have been the uppermost thought in the minds of the manufacturer.

Thepresent inventor. having these advantageous features in mind, and having had years of practical experience in the dress manufacturing industry, has gone a step further and invented a Hoover type garment havingall the aforementioned features but having in addition, the present invention applied thereto of a new type of Hoover gar-.

ment structure and design which renders the garment more pleasing to the eye, one that will positively adapt and conform itself to the wearers figure, and does not present the usual bagginess which tends to give the wearera clumsy appearance. The present invention of garment structure also tends to give the wearer a snappy and trim figure which is a very desirable feature to the trade, and for those who usually purchase this type of garment, such as nurses, maids, beauticians, at-

tendants and housewives. t From practical demonstrations, the 1mproved garment, 1t has been found, Wlll au-' tomatically adjust itself to the wearers figure, due in great measure to its structural deilglllg its fashionable cut and princess flare i This is a new garment, being buttonless, and because of its new structural design, as applied to the Hoover garment, is very easily laundered because it spreads flat, particularly in a longitudinal direction. Other like gar ments, with their transverse seams, which at times are'puckered, .present great difiiculty in ironing.

In the accompanying drawing I have illustrated the various features of my invention in their preferred form as applied to the .Hoover type of garment or dress.

In the drawing: 1

Figure 1 is a front elevationof my improved type of Hoover dress, disclosing the same as it appears when actually worn, the right side being shown held open and away from the wearers body. Figure 2 is a rear elevation of the garment and figure as shown in Figure 1.

Figure 3 is another view of the back of the garment disclosing its lines without the belt.

Figure 4 is a three quarter or perspective view of the garment disclosing the left side of the same as it appears when extended outwardly. v

Figure 5 is a rear elevation of the improved garment disclosing both front portions s read. outwardly for purposes of disclosing 4 t erelative lines of the garment and its complete structural design.

Figure 6 is a view similar' to Figure 1, somewhat in perspective, and on a reduced scale, illustrating my improved garment in closed position on a wearer with the belt tied somewhat to the left side.-

Referring to the drawing by. reference nu merals, each of which represents the same or similar parts throughout the various views, the invention consists of a body portion 1, having the usual collar and lapel structure 2 formed thereon, with short cuffed 100 these belts may be threaded throu h their .4 and 5, may each be overlap ing front portions 4 and 5, respec-.

tively, t e upper parts 6 and 7 of which are provided with the permanently attached belt members 8 and 9, respectively. Either of respective garment openings 10 an 11, depending on which front portion, either 4 or 5, the wearer wishes to wear on the outside. As shown in Figures 1,2 and 6 of the 'drawing, the belt 9 is threaded through its respective belt opening 11, thence brought around the back of the wearer (see Figure 2) to the front, as shown in Figure 1. The right front portion 4 is then overlapped over the left portion 5 and the two free'ends of the belts 8 and 9 tied in a manner similar to that shown in Figure 6. These front portions, rovided with pockets 14: and 15, respective y, which, as may be readily seen, allows for the provision of a pocket regardless as to which side of the front structure may be in use.

The body structure 1, as a whole, is made up of a plurality of longitudinal garment sections 16, 17 and 18, together with the front sections 4 and 5. For purposes of obtaining a natural conformation of the garment to the average wearers figure, theselongitudinal sections are Hatred at their upper shoulder and lower skirt portions. The ines 19, 20, 21 and 22 formed bythe seams of these sections all tend, as noted from the various figures in the drawing, to converge toward the waist line 23, thus causing the garment to not onlv assume a form. fitting appearance, but to tend to force the garment he lay against the wearers conformation of gure,

It willbe noted that the applicants garment has fully dispensed with any type of transverse waist seam, as this typeof structure tends to cause the garment to pull and puckenat the waist line and positively fixing the waist line of the garment which is very objectionable, whereas the applicants struc- A house dress having a neck portion at the top and a back and side portion formed of continuous vertical sections jioined at the edges, the sections having an oppositely reducing ta er from the collar portion and the bottom e ge respectively, toward the waist, the garment also having a front section on each side, each front section being adapted to overlap the other front section at and below the waistline, each front section below the waistline extending substantially across the entire front of the garment and having an offset at the waist line providing a horizontal edge extending along the waistline, each front section above the offset being'narrowed relatively to its lower'portion by the offset and having its free edge inclined outwardly from the offset and upwardly toward the neck, said inclined edges being provided with a collar turned over the corresponding front sections, the collar extending continuously-from the offset at the waistline at each side upwardly and around the neck and tapering downwardly to a point at both ends of the collar which points meet the inclined edges at the waistline and a belt section secured to each offset, the ends of the belt being adapted to be connected at the front, the. garment having an aperture at each side on the waistline through which the belt sections on the opposite sides may be passed, the aperture on the overlapping side of the garment only being utilized by passing the belt section on the side which is covered through said aperture and around the back of the wearer gnd joining with the other belt section at the ront.

Signed by me at New York, New York, this 6th day of September 1932.

CHARLES B. JACOBS.

ture presents afiexible-waist line that is not definite and allows the garment to more readily conform itself to the varying waits and hiplines of the different body types of wearers. The longitudinal sections, 16, 17 and'18,

permit the manufacturers to incorporate the very desirable type of princess flare back to this garment.

. I have thus described specifically and in detail a garment structure of the Hoover type embodying the various features of my invention in their preferred 'form in order that the nature and operation of the same may be clearly understood, however, the specific terms-herein are used descriptively rather than in a limiting sense, the scope of the invention being defined in the claim.

What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is: 

